Musings about some of my favorite fantasy literature for young readers, comics old and new, the peculiar publishing industry, the future of books, kids today, and the writing process.
I mustn't withhold a link to Janni Lee Simner's "Revision lessons." Among her hard-learned reminders: You know those writers who withhold information from the reader for no good reason? And how you thought you weren't one of them? You were wrong.
J. L. BELL is a writer and reader of fantasy literature for children. His favorite authors include L. Frank Baum, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper. He is an Assistant Regional Advisor in the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators, and was the editor of Oziana, creative magazine of the International Wizard of Oz Club, from 2004 to 2010.
Living in Massachusetts, Bell also writes about the American Revolution at Boston 1775.
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This has been on my mind a lot lately, since in the war part of War and Peace Tolstoy just left me hanging for several thousand pages waiting to find out if Nospoilertov survived the big battle.
Finally he casually mentions that Nospoilertov wasn't in the battle at all.
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